Generally, crime cannot be perceived directly, but rather only indirectly through media coverage. In terms of the … how local and regional German newspapers report crime. To answer this question, a standardised content analysis of 31 … newspapers was conducted. The findings show that newspaper articles about crime take up a small, yet clearly perceivable space …

This report aims to show the distribution of crime in Germany. For this, police crime statistics (polizeiliche … Kriminalstatistik - PKS) are treated so that they integrate dark figures (unreported crime) of crime types along with their specific … treatment methods: First, there is a north- south divide, with the northern regions experiencing a far higher risk of crime …

Measuring and explaining the fear of crime in criminology and its related disciplines has been a controversial issue … for decades. The present report proposes a method of examining and measuring the fear of crime with a broader empirical … andprobability of being the victim of a crime has made it possible to describe, for the very first time, a well-founded fear of …

Many people are afraid of falling prey to crime. The present report investigates the extent to which this fear is in … line with the actual regional crime rates. This analysis is based on data from a comprehensive database on the fear of … crime, combined with police crime statistics (specifically, adjusted crime statistics which factor in the "dark figure" of …

The present report analyzes crime reporting in newspapers and compares this to actual crime rates and fear of crime …. One key finding is that crime-related issues play a comparativelyminor role in local editions of regional subscription …. It is often alleged that crime in the media is ubiquitous but this can only be confirmed to a limited degree in local …